LG's BD100 Blu-ray player makes its debut in London

After raising eyebrows by having no Blu-ray plans to show at its dealer show in Orlando a few days ago, LG finally announced its new BD100 Blu-ray player at the Best of Stuff show in London yesterday. The BD199 player shown previously was cancelled abruptly, and for a moment LG seemed ready to replace it with a dual format HD DVD / Blu-ray player, but the company later backed off those plans. The BD100 will include HDMI, component, composite, coaxial, and S/PDIF outs, whether 5.1 audio output via analog is included is unclear. 1080p Blu-ray playback and DVD upconversion is definitely part of the package, plus DivX, WMA and MP3 compatibility. LG officials refused to commit to a price or launch date, only that it would be "competitively" priced. Whether that means competitive in Australia, relative to the Toshiba HD-E1 HD DVD player (£499) or the Samsung BD-P1000 Blu-ray player (£1000) -- both were also on display at the show -- is unknown.

[Via Cnet UK & Stuff Mag]

[Rick Lyon @ Nov 4th 2006 1:36PM]

Competitively priced against Sony products or HD-DVD products? Hell, even Phillips has an $800 something BRD player. So, will this be sub $1k, or $1500?

[Jason @ Nov 4th 2006 2:10PM]

Coax out? Thank god!

[Dave @ Nov 4th 2006 2:37PM]

Bring em on, BLU-RAY !!!

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http://www.disneybluray.com/
http://forum.blu-ray.com

[Mike @ Nov 4th 2006 6:36PM]

It looks strikingly similar to the Toshiba HD-A1. LG's units are typically quite sylish, so I'm hoping the pic is just a mock-up and not the final product.

[lol @ Nov 5th 2006 1:07AM]

"1080p Blu-ray playback and DVD upconversion is definitely part of the package, plus DivX, WMA and MP3 compatibility."

[lol @ Nov 5th 2006 1:08AM]

Good. I'll buy it.